Katerina Pantazatou

University of Luxembourg

Katerina Pantazatou is Associate Professor of Tax Law and Director of the master’s programme in EU Law and Litigation at the University of Luxembourg. She also directs the Robert Schuman Initiative, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence funded by the European Commission.

Previously, Katerina was a postdoctoral FNR/Marie Curie fellow at the University of Luxembourg. She received her PhD from the European University Institute for her thesis, European Economic Integration through “Fiscality”: A Legal Perspective. She holds an LL.M. in Commercial Law from the University of Cambridge and an LL.M. in Civil Law from the University of Athens, where she also earned her LL.B.

She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Bergamo and the University of Valencia and has held visiting positions at the Institute for Austrian and International Taxation in Vienna as an Ernst Mach scholar and at Harvard University with support from the Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs and the FNR. Katerina is a qualified lawyer under Greek law. She has practiced in Athens and served as a trainee lawyer at the European Commission’s Legal Service. Her research focuses on the interaction of EU rules with direct taxation, the protection of fundamental rights, and the intersection between direct taxation and digitalisation, and has been published in books and peer-reviewed journals.